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The four-week university-sponsored summer Computer-based Writing (CBW) Program directed by the head of a special education initial teacher licensure program gave teaching interns opportunities to work with young struggling writers in a supervised clinical setting to address keyboarding skills, writing conventions and knowledge and application of the writing process. Following the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD instructional model, the graduate interns explicitly taught their students writing and self-regulation strategies that included self-monitoring, self-instruction, goal-setting, and self-reinforcement. The purpose of this article is to describe how through their CBW experiences, the interns acquired content and professional knowledge, tested out best instructional, assessment and technology practices and developed critical reflective thinking needed for informing their instructional practice. The CBW experience provided direct community service to children identified as at-risk learners and to their parents who learned ways they can provide ongoing literacy and learning support for their children at home.

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert